The Autobiography of Malcolm X Introduction
When it comes to a book about a human rights activist, there are a billion reasons to care—but we want to take a look at something more personal.
There is always time for change. Who would've thought that a little kid from the country who bounced around between foster homes, detention centers, and jails would have done anything with his life? Based on his history, we might have guessed that Malcolm X lived a life of crime until he died in a gunfight. But that didn't happen. He changed.
You can probably think of a million things that you want to change in your life. Some of them probably seem impossible. But that's okay. If The Autobiography of Malcolm X teaches us anything, it's that there is time for you to change your life as long as you're not dead. If this little kid from Nebraska could do it, then so can you.
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This dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King upends longstanding preconceptions to transform our understanding of the twentieth century's most iconic African American leaders. To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense vs. nonviolence, black power vs. civil rights, the sword vs. the shield. The struggle for black freedom is wrought with the same contrasts. While nonviolent direct action is remembered as an unassailable part of American democracy, the movement's militancy is either vilified or erased outright. In this work, Joseph upends these misconceptions and reveals a nuanced portrait of two men who, despite markedly different backgrounds, inspired and pushed each other throughout their adult lives. This is a strikingly revisionist biography, not only of Malcolm and Martin, but also of the movement and era they came to define.
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne & Tamara Payne. New York: Liveright,
Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, embarked in on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually
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My son recently left home for college. Afterward, I found it necessary to clean up his room a bit. Among piles of leftover laundry were also stacks of books he’d read for high school classes, including this one. Holding it in his vacated room, I remembered it had been part of my high school curriculum too, but I’d never read it. Given the events of recent years, and the Seattle Opera production of &#;X,&#; about Malcolm X, I thought maybe I should.
His name still evokes fear, anger, and admiration, six decades after his murder. Alex Haley interviewed Malcolm X more than 50 times from to ’65, and the result was a book alive with the same intensity as their all-night talks about racism, protest, and brutality that seem little changed since then.
Malcolm speaks to us directly in the same powerful, raw language that made him a proud militant, describing his upbringing, his crimes, his bigotry and misogyny, and his evolution into a human rights activist. He does not mince words. He does not look away. He does not rationalize his failings. Or our own. Yet he also speaks with a humility and tenderness at odds with his
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